product development

“I think if you just talk to two or three customers, you're probably going to end up building the wrong things.”

“In product development, in product design, when you're sitting there day to day reprioritizing product priorities, trying to ship product, trying to get things out the door, sometimes you lose the overall context of where the company is going. Because you're m…”

“Product and technology advantage is short lived. Your product decays, new entrants want to come in with a better, smarter version, all of those things. And so what keeps the best companies growing bigger and bigger is not product development, but owning the li…”

“And when you use the word growth, we don't really mean growth hacking, but it's more like product development through the philosophy of growth, which is really about being fast, being very data, being highly data informed. You know, it's not necessarily data d…”

“Unlike product development, when you are exploring new marketing channels, a lot of them don't go well, and that has to be something you expect at the beginning.”

“We often try to make every part of the product development of a customer experience awesome. You just need one A++++ moment. That is then how the psychology works so that you end up having a great experience.”

“I think as you go through successive versions, you get better and better data from people who are actually paying for whatever it is you're doing. You know, you're getting revenue in some form. So those people have real opinions because they're using it and th…”

“Out of a really mature feature area, it's more science than art, because it's about optimization, and you have so much data on the scale. So there, I would say, 80, 20, science, art. I think, if you're at an early stage company, or at a really early, you know,…”

“And when you do research, I think the failure is higher than, like, when you're building a product.”

“I think it can get lost if you, again, sort of lean on data too much, because oftentimes, you know, a data, a signal that you're seeing in the data might tell you to do one thing, but if you don't stop and sort of think about how whatever feature change that i…”

“I think it's a very underrated aspect of great PM and great product development is this act of breaking things down into small chunks so that you don't overcomplicate what you ship.”

“When a product or an idea has no legs and you're proving it out, you should actually have very few people working on, on an idea”